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Latest SPC-2 results – chart of the month
Latest SPC-2 (Storage Performance Council-2) benchmark results chart displaying the top ten in aggregate MBPS(TM) broken down into Large File Processing (LFP), Large Database Query (LDQ) and Video On Demand (VOD) throughput results. One problem with this chart is that … Continue reading
Posted in Storage, Storage performance
Tagged Benchmarks, Chart of the month, Database transfers, file processing, HDS, HDS USP-V, HP, HP XP24000, IBM, IBM DS5300, IBM SVC, SPC-2, Sun, Sun 6780, video on demand
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Chart of the month: SPC LRT(tm) performance results
The above chart shows the top 12 LRT(tm) (least response time) results for Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark. The vertical axis is the LRT in milliseconds (msec.) for the top benchmark runs. As can be seen the two subsystems from … Continue reading
Posted in Data security, Storage, Storage Features, Storage performance, Systems
Tagged Benchmarks, Chart of the month, Data security, Drive encryption, Encryption, FDE, IBM, IBM DS5300, Key manager, LRT, Seagate, SPC, SPC-1, TMS, TMS RamSan
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Why SSD performance is a mystery?
SSD and/or SSS (solid state storage) performance is a mystery to most end-users. The technology is inherently asymmetrical, i.e., it reads much faster than it writes. I have written on some of these topics before (STEC’s new MLC drive, Toshiba’s … Continue reading
Posted in Storage, Storage performance
Tagged Benchmarks, Blocksizes, Caching, IO performance, NAND, R:W rate, Random IO, Sequential IO, SNIA, SSD, SSS, STEC, Storage performance
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ESRP results 1K and under mailboxes – chart of the month
As described more fully in last months SCI’s newsletter, to the left is a chart depicting Exchange Solution Reporting Program (ESRP) results for up to 1000 mailboxes in the database read and write per second category. This top 10 chart … Continue reading
Posted in Storage, Storage performance
Tagged Benchmarks, Chart of the month, EMC CLARiiON, ESRP, Exchange performance, HP MSA
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On Storage Benchmarks
What is it about storage benchmarks that speaks to me? Is it the fact that they always present new data on current products, that there are always some surprises, or that they always reveal another facet of storage performance. There … Continue reading